I Remember Learning The Word Melancholy At Age 7 Or Something And Thinking Oh This Word's Gonna Be Huge

Sleeping Beauty by Nadezhda Illarionova

Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

Richard Doyle - Day Dreaming

fucking eldritch level feelings for these two wtf

playing this game makes me feel wayy too many things

La Dame a la Licorne by Armand Point (1898)

And that dialogue about the Minotaur still haunts me…

White Mourning

“I always find it strange, how rarely evil comes dressed for the part. One might expect a wicked being to look like this creature—horned and fetid, unmistakable. And yet, the truest threats arrive masked as angels of light.”

Summary: In the dead of winter night, the betrothed arrives. A dragon rots in a filthy cage, brought as proof of a holy slaughter. In a castle thick with secrets and snow, the bride, haunted by the dreams of fire, begins to stray. And when the wedding bells ring, the veils will be drawn for mourning.

Read on AO3!

The snow Queen by Artuš Scheiner (1863 – 1938)

“Nastassja Korolevichna” and “Maria Swan White” by Sergey Solomko

My December reads. The Woman in White has been attempted many times, but I'm determined to finish it this time around. Feeling powerful and capable now that I've discovered audiobooks.